November 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

November 19 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - November 21

All fixed commemorations below are observed on December 3 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For November 20, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on November 7.

Feasts

 * Forefeast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Theotokos.

Saints

 * Martyr Dasius of Dorostolum, Romania (303)
 * Martyrs Eustathios the Deacon, Thespesios, and Anatolios, of Nicaea (312)
 * Martyrs of Persia under Shapur II (343):
 * Hieromartyrs Nerses, Bishop of Shahrqart (Kirkuk) and his disciple Martyr Joseph;
 * Hieromartyrs John, Shapur, and Isaac, Bishops of Seit Selok (by stoning); Hypatius (Papias) and Isaac, Presbyters (by beheading); and Jonam the ascetic;
 * Martyrs Guhshtazad the eunuch (Azades), Sasanis, Noelmaris and Zarouantinis (Zaun), of Lashom, lanced for refusing to sacrifice to the sun god of the Persians;
 * Virgin-martyrs Thekla, Bautha, Denachis, Tatun, Mama, Malochia, Ana, Nana, Asti and Malach, by the sword, for refusing to worship the Persian fire god.


 * Martyrs Bassus and 42 companions in Heraclea in Thrace.
 * Saint Isaac, Bishop of Armenia (440)
 * Saint Proclus of Constantinople, Archbishop of Constantinople (447)
 * Venerable Gregory Decapolites (816)
 * Venerable Theoctistus the Confessor, Patrician (855)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Martyrs Octavius, Solutor and Adventor, patron-saints of Turin in Italy where they were martyred (297)
 * Martyrs Ampelus and Gaius, in Messina in Sicily under Diocletian (c. 302)
 * Saint Maxentia, born in Ireland, she settled as an anchoress near Senlis in France, where she was put to death at the place now called Pont-Sainte-Maxence (c. 450)
 * Saint Benignus of Milan, Archbishop of Milan (c. 477)
 * Saint Silvester, Bishop of Châlons-sur-Saône in France (c. 525)
 * Saint Simplicius of Verona, Bishop of Verona in Italy (c. 535)
 * Saint Eval (Uvol, Urfol), a Bishop in Cornwall (6th century)
 * Saint Autbodus (Autbod), born in Ireland, he preached in Artois, Hainault and Picardy in the north of France and Belgium (690)
 * Saint Eudo (Eudon, Eudes Odo), a monk at Lérins Abbey in France, he founded the monastery of Corméry-en-Velay (Charmillac), later called Saint-Chaffre (c. 760)
 * Saint Hippolyte of Belley, Bishop of Belley, then hermit in Saint-Claude in Franche-Comté (769)
 * Saint Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia (869)
 * Saint Leo of Nonantula, monk and abbot of Nonantola Abbey near Modena in Italy (1000)
 * Saint Bernward of Hildesheim, Bishop of Hildesheim in Germany (1022)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Saint Sozomenos, Bishop of Karpaseia in Cyprus, and Wonderworker (12th century)   (see also: November 21)
 * Venerable Diodorus of George Hill, Solovki, Abbot of Yuregorsk (1633)
 * Saint Parasceva (Rodimtseva), Abbess of Toplovsky Convent, Simferopol (1928)

New martyrs and confessors

 * New Hieromartyr Macarius (Karmazin), Bishop of Dnepropetrovsk (Ekaterinoslav) (1937)
 * New Hieromartyrs Alexis Amanov, Alexander Sakharov, and Vladimir Medvediuk, John Zabolotny, Alexis Nikatov, Basil Kandelabrov, Nicholas Zelenov, John Sarva, Emilian Panasevich, Nicholas Pokrovsky, Priests (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Arsenius (Dmitriev), abbot, of the Tikhvin Monastery (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Eutychius (Kachur), abbot, of the St. Marcian Skete, Ukraine (1937)
 * New Hieromartyr Hilarion (Pisarets), hieromonk of Glinsk Hermitage (1937)
 * New Nun-martyr Ioannikia (Kozhevnikova), Abbess of the Convent of the Entry of the Theotokos (Tikhvin) (1937)
 * New Woman Hieromartyr Tatiana Fomicheva (after 1937)